AI Product Engineer – Internal Tools & Automation (m/f/d)

What you need to bring

• You're an excellent engineer who builds software that carries real load in production – clean, pragmatic, and free of bloat.
• You know our stack (PHP/Laravel & Python, Vue/React, MySQL, Docker, DigitalOcean) or pick it up effortlessly.
• You haven't just built LLM systems – you've run them in production, with everything that really entails: cost, latency, evals, edge cases, monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code, the Anthropic Agent SDK, or multi-step AI agents in production.
• You extend AI tooling via MCPs and custom integrations against real data sources.
• Depth in LLM workflows: prompt engineering, tool use, structured outputs, RAG – and the judgment to choose the right tool for each problem.
• You think entrepreneurially and product-driven: you talk to users, question requirements, cut scope decisively, and tell AI gimmicks apart from real business impact.
• You want end-to-end ownership in a small, senior team that ships more than most 20-person teams.

Not for you if you …

If you've only used AI as a chat assistant and never shipped an agent into production, this role probably isn't the right fit – and that's okay.

• have never run an LLM system in production.
• want narrow, well-defined tickets instead of end-to-end ownership.
• aren't excited about AI, automation and internal tooling.
• can't be on-site with the team in Düsseldorf.

What your day looks like ✨

• ⚙️You identify automation and AI opportunities across the entire company – in direct exchange with the teams, close to the real workflow instead of at the whiteboard.
• ⚙️You build AI-powered workflows for Marketing & Creative: briefing generation, copy review, asset QA, and ad-performance summaries – along our trend-to-product cycle of under one week.
• ⚡You develop quality-assurance and anomaly-detection tooling for our proprietary platform, LYTO.OS.
• ⚡You ship lightweight internal agents that take over repetitive work – so people can focus on what truly needs them.
• ⚙️You own internal operations automation end-to-end: reporting pipelines, approval flows, and cross-system data syncs across our 15 microservices.
• 🙌You scope, prioritize, build, ship, and iterate – with full ownership and a short path from idea to production.

What you can expect 🚀

• 🙌Over 1 million orders, 5 markets, 3 brands – things are happening here. You take on real ownership instead of being just a cog in the machine.
• 🏡Flexible working hours and a home-office option. You decide when and where you're most productive.
• 🎉Dynamic team with a real culture: a weekly trophy for living our values, celebrating anniversaries and birthdays together, and monthly after-work drinks.
• 💰Deutschland-Ticket, a €250 shopping budget in our own shops, and additional benefits like Urban Sports Club M.
• 🏋️A new sport every month that we try out together in the Lyto Athletics Club.
• 🎉Team trips together (Mallorca, Belgium, Portugal) and the best company merch in the industry.
• 📚Individual coaching tailored to your goals – from leadership to specialist coaching, e.g. your own Google Ads coach.